OK, so you're a BIG fan of something, and want to do a fanfiction, but to make it easier on yourself, you just so happen to have your own collection of original characters, world and personalitys to chose from.
Should you combine the two for luls? Or is it tacky for a writer to do that?
My Pros for this set up-
- Less research
- You know the characters WELL
- Less work creating new ones
- Its writes its own story
- The characters are already well established.
Negatives-
- People that write them can easily get caught up in power for the spot light battles
- You sometimes have to take the fandom characters out of their normal way of life to use them in your story- unless your OCs are flexible
- Mary Sueage. So your lead girl makes the fandom fall inlove with her or something just as bad T.T
- Poor in jokes can come out that don't make sense for people that don't know the fandom.
- You have to establish a relationship with the characters, and that can be hard.
Thoughts on this? Good? Bad? Depends on the writer? Perhaps you have other thoughts to add?